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Drew Droege
Droege in 2016
Born	Andrew Gerhardt Droege
Education	Lincolnton High School
Alma mater	Wake Forest University
Occupation(s)	Actor, comedian, writer, director
Years active	1995–present

Andrew Gerhardt Droege (pronounced /ˈdroʊɡi/) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his online impressions of Chloë Sevigny.

Early life and education

Droege attended and graduated from Lincolnton High School in Lincolnton, North Carolina. Droege went on to study Theatre and English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he obtained a BA. Following college graduation, Droege moved to Los Angeles and started studying with The Groundlings.

Career

Television and film

Droege has appeared on television in Hot in Cleveland, Key & Peele, Bob's Burgers, How I Met Your Mother, Up All Night, New Girl, NTSF:SD:SUV::, Jon Benjamin Has a Van, Glory Daze, The Sarah Silverman Program, Kroll Show, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, Halfway Home, Reno 911! and Campus Ladies and on film in Sassy Pants, Eating Out 4: Drama Camp and Big Gay Love.

Live performance

Droege performed in the March 2012 edition of Don't Tell My Mother, a monthly showcase event in which authors, screenwriters, actors, and comedians share true stories they would never want their mothers to know. He has directed several sketch comedy shows and Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera (winner, Best Ensemble, NY International Fringe Festival 2011) in Los Angeles.

In 2017, Droege was in the original cast of the jukebox musical Titanique in Los Angeles. In 2023, he joined the Off-Broadway cast of the show as Ruth in New York City.

Droege was a member of improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings Sunday Company, where he currently performs and teaches. He also performs regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and plays a leading role in UCB's breakdancing movie musical, Freak Dance.

Web series

Droege's Chloe Sevigny impression videos have been featured on PerezHilton.com, EW.com, The Huffington Post and The New York Post, and were called "compulsively watchable" by The Advocate.

In 2012 and 2013, Droege appeared in the comedy series Romantic Encounters and the interview series All Growz Up, both opposite Melinda Hill. Droege also starred in Crowned.

Other work

Droege's Earwolf podcast, Glitter In The Garbage, was deemed "Brilliant and Lowbrow" by New York magazine's Approval Matrix.

As a writer, Droege has contributed to OUT magazine, Logo's New Now Next Awards, E!'s Fashion Police, and Funny Or Die's Billy On The Street.

Awards

In 2010, Droege was given Outfest Film Festival's Special Programming Award For Emerging Talent. In 2011, he was named one of Out magazine's OUT 100. In 2012, LA Weekly cited Droege as one of Los Angeles' Top 10 Comedy Acts To Watch. In 2017, Droege won an Indie Series Award for Best Guest Actor (Comedy) for his performance as Dewey in the web series #Adulting.

Filmography

References

1. @drewdroege (2011-01-11). "It's pronounced DRO-gee (with a hard g)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
2. "LAWeekly". Retrieved 8 July 2012.
3. "Jersey Shoresical: Cast/Crew". jerseyshoresical.com. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
4. "FringeNYC Encore Series". fringenyc.org. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
5. Musbach, Julie (July 5, 2017). "Take a Voyage on the Titanique". Broadway World. Retrieved October 12, 2023.
6. "Comedian Drew Droege and RuPaul's Drag Race Star Willam to Join Titanique Off-Broadway". Playbill. August 24, 2023. Retrieved October 12, 2023.
7. Rabinowitz, Chloe. "Drag Race Star Willam and Comedian Drew Droege to Join Titanique". Broadway World.
8. Russo, Gillian (August 24, 2023). "Willam, Drew Droege join Titanique Off-Broadway cast". New York Theatre Guide. Retrieved October 12, 2023.
9. "Drew Droege: Groundlings' School". The Groundlings Theatre & School.
10. "Freak Dance". UCB Theatre web page. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
11. Hansen, Jim. "The Chloe Videos". Jim Hansen Films. Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
12. Gutelle, Sam (26 June 2013). "Melinda Hill Seeking "Romantic Encounters" on My Damn Channel Network". Tubefilter. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
13. "All Growz Up: Drew Droege". Chuckler.
14. Carrie, Stephanie. "Steph's LA Weekly Feature Series – Melinda Hill's Romantic Encounters". Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
15. "The Approval Matrix: Week of April 25, 2011". nymag.com. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
16. "Outfest Announces 2010 Award Winners". Outfest.org. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
17. "17th Annual Out100". www.out.com. 11 December 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
18. "10 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2012". LAWeekly.com. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
19. "8th Annual Indie Series Awards Winners". Indie Series Awards. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
20. "Battletoads (2020 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 19 January 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of the title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

External links

• Drew Droege at IMDb

• Living people
• American gay actors
• American male television actors
• American male film actors
• American Internet celebrities
• Gay comedians
• American gay writers
• American male comedians
• 21st-century American comedians
• Upright Citizens Brigade Theater performers
• 21st-century American LGBT people
• American LGBT comedians